The bus to Marrakesh, Morocco, Traverses landscapes simply socko The agricultural economy Suggests the book of Deuteronomy The machine has not replaced the mammal And everything is done by camel. I hope I’ll never learn what flesh I ate that day in Marrakesh, But after struggling with a jawful I thought it tasted humpthing awful.
Places Quotes
When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: “Altogether too many sheep.
On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.
Hong Kong in a nutshell-a completely foreign city that’s utterly comprehensible. It’s a modern place, deaf to charm, dumb in the language of aesthetics, caught up in a wild, romantic passion for the plain utilitarian. The only traditional touches are the catawampus walls and whichaway entrances dictated by feng shui, the art of placing things […]
I have done Thebes somewhat hurriedly, it is true, but I have gone over it. Travellers no doubt, may wish to purchase mummies and other souvenirs here. If they but express a wish to buy, mummies by the wholesale, whole mummies, heads of mummies, hands, feet, limbs and trunks of mummies; human, animal, and bird […]
Palestine is desolate and unlovely. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.
The concrete runway at Warsaw’s Miedzynarodowy airport is coming to pieces. From bumpy landing to bumpy take-off, you spend your time in Poland looking at bad concrete. Everything is made of it – streets, buildings, floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, window frames, lamp posts, statues, benches, plus some of the food, I think.
There are certain places, among them some of the most impressive and beautiful in the world, that call for only a single dose, repeated perhaps the next morning. If nothing else, it is a tribute to their potency. Even the Parthenon, even the paintings in the Prado, are not to be seen each day, and […]
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
